Climate change and anthropogenic food manipulation interact in shifting the distribution of a large herbivore at its altitudinal range limit

Abstract Ungulates in alpine ecosystems are constrained by winter harshness through resource limitation and direct mortality from weather extremes. However, little empirical evidence has definitively established how current climate change and other anthropogenic modifications of resource availabilit...

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Main Authors: Julius G. Bright Ross, Wibke Peters, Federico Ossi, Paul R. Moorcroft, Emanuele Cordano, Emanuele Eccel, Filippo Bianchini, Maurizio Ramanzin, Francesca Cagnacci
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-04-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-86720-2